I always assume people are going to use the Internet. And I use it too, unless someone explicitly says "without looking it up," in which case I still look it up but just don't post the answer. That's why I can't do Tuesday Trivia; it would just be a scavenger hunt for me.

I'll mention that, for the puzzle above, in the movie titles, each variable represents one word, while in the performer names, each variable may represent one or two names. If the two names are first and last, I alphabetized by last name, and if the variable represents two first names, I alphabetized by first first name.

...FROST / NIXON with FRANK LANGELLA who was in GOOD NIGHT AND GOOD LUCK with GEORGE CLOONEY who was in OCEAN'S TWELVE with BRUCE WILLIS who was in The EXPENDABLES with ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER who was in JUNIOR with EMMA THOMPSON who was in SAVING MR. BANKS with TOM HANKS who was in SAVING PRIVATE RYAN with MATT DAMON who was in GOOD WILL HUNTING with BEN AFFLECK who was in CHASING AMY with CASEY AFFLECK who was in GONE BABY GONE with AMYRYAN who was in WIN WIN with PAUL GIAMATTI who was in TWELVE YEARS A SLAVE with BRAD PITT who was in Meet Joe Black with ANTHONY HOPKINS who was in NIXON with E.G. MARSHALL who was in TWELVE ANGRY MEN with HENRY FONDA who was in ON GOLDEN POND with JANE FONDA who was in The BUTLER with CUBA GOODING JUNIOR who was in A FEW GOODMEN...

...IT'S A MAD, MAD, MAD, MAD WORLD with SID CAESAR who was in HISTORY OF THEWORLD: PART ONE with JOHN HURT who was in THE ELEPHANT MAN with (SIR)JOHN GIELGUD who was in JULIUS CAESAR with JAMES MASON who was in MURDER BY DECREE with Christopher Plummer who was in ALEXANDER with (SIR)ANTHONY HOPKINS who was in CHAPLIN with GERALDINE CHAPLIN who was in DOCTOR ZHIVAGO with (SIR)ALEC GUINESS who was in the original STAR WARS with JAMES EARL JONES who was in DOCTOR STRANGELOVE with Peter Sellers who was in MURDER BY DEATH with JAMES CROMWELL who was in STAR TREK: FIRST CONTACT with (SIR) PATRICK STEWART who was in L.A. STORY with Steve Martin who was in IT'S COMPLICATED with ALEC BALDWIN who was in State and Main with CHARLES DURNING who was in THE GREEK TYCOON with ANTHONY QUINN who was in TYCOON with JOHN WAYNE who was in THE MAN WHO SHOT LIBERTY VALANCE with JAMESSTEWART who was in THE MAN WHO KNEW TOO MUCH with CAROLYN JONES who was in How the West Was Won…

rockgolf wrote:Bill, can I adapt one of these into a Sporcle quiz? I think it could be a lot of fun if it were interactive, and with 62 color blocks instead on letters and numbers.

I would of course give you credit with a link to your website, or if you prefer set up a separate account under your name.

It could end up looking something like this quiz, but I think it would work better in a map format.

Rockgolf, I love the idea. Credit with a link to my website would be great. I'll trust you to find the right format.

I'm wondering how it affects the puzzle if you can't look stuff up or know the alphabetical order of the answers. The advantage, of course, is that answers are filled in automatically so you can immediately see the new information affects the rest of the puzzle. Neel and Marpocky might be able to weigh in on this, as well as others who may have attempted to solve these.

But maybe I need to put together a more Sporcle-friendly version. What do you all think?

Okay, I've put together a version optimized for Sporcle. I made it a little longer with more variables. I tried to choose movies that many people would know off the top of their heads. And to compensate for lost alphabetical hints, I added the year of each movie.

Here it is if you want to field test it. Or you could just wait and do it on Sporcle. Rockgolf, I'll PM you the solution.

Will Smith was in Six Degrees of Separation (1993) with [01][02] who was in [03][04] (2003) with [05][06] who was in [07][08][09][10] (2006) with [11][12] who was in [08][13] (2008) with [14][15] who was in [08][16][17] (2008) with [18][19] who was in [20][21] (2013) with [22][23] who was in [08][24]-[25] (2010) with [26][27] who was in [08][28][29][30] (2002) with [11][31] who was in [32] (2008) with Kevin Spacey who was in [20][33] (1999) with [34][23] who was in [08][35] (2010) with [36][37] who was in [38][36] (2004) with [11][39] who was in [40][41][42][24][44][45][46][47] (2003) with Matthew McConaughey who was in [48] (2014) with [26][49] who was in [50][51] (2014) with [52][53] who was in [54][55] (2002) with [56][57] who was in [08][58][59] (1993) with [60][61] who was in [62][63] (1987) with [64][61] who was in [65][66] (1979) with [67][68] who was in [08][69] (2014) with [67][70][71] who was in [72][73][58] (2013) with [44][74] who was in [28][29][75] (2000) with Samuel L. Jackson who was in [76][77] (2005) with [78][79] who was in [32][43][63] (2012) with [80][81] who was in [08][82][29][62][63] (2013) with [83][84] who was in [08][73][45][08][72][85] (1998) with [18][86] who was in [87][33] (1996) with [88][15] who was in [89] (2014) with [90][16] who was in Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011) with [52][91] who was in [08][09][92] (2010) with [93][94][77] who was in [95] (1994) with [67][96] who was in [08][97][98] (2006) with [99][16] who was in [24][100][29][101] (1998) with [102][78] who was in Six Degrees of Separation (1993) with Will Smith.

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